ET Phone Earth - By 2025?
A total of 42 radio dishes have started collecting scientific data from the furthest reaches of the universe, part of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Hat Creek, around 270 miles north of San Francisco.
“We don’t know how many needles are in the galactic haystack of 400 billion stars, but I think we will find (signals from intelligent civilizations) by 2025.” (The Telegraph)
Will it? Really? Bollocks will it. The future never is what we think or hope it will be. It hasn’t happened yet, so could be anything. We could have alien contact tomorrow. Or the human race might never meet another sentient species.
To start with, it is quite possible that any life that exists in the rest of the universe is not recognisable by us as life. Let alone give off any signals that we could interpret.
In many ways I just have subscribe to the Calvin and Hobbes saying: “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Source: The Telegraph
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